Programming the Network with Perl

1. Meet Perl Perl's Default Behaviour Using Variables in Perl Controlling Flow Boolean in Perl Perl Operators Subroutines Perl I/O Packages, Modules and Objects More Perl Where to From Here? Print Resources Web Resources 2. Snooping Thank You, Tim Potter Preparing to Snoop Building Low-Level Snooping Tools Snooping IP Datagrams Transport Snoopers The Network Debugger Where to From Here? Print Resources Web Resources 3. Sockets Clients and Servers Transport Services Introducing the Perl Socket API Socket Support Subroutines Simple UDP Clients and Servers Genericity and Robustness UDP is Unreliable Sending and Receiving with UDP Dealing with Deadlock TCP Clients and Servers A Common TCP Gotcha More TCP Socket Communication The Concurrent Syntax Checker Object-Oriented Sockets Where to From Here? Print Resources Web Resources 4. Protocols Gotcha! Working with the Web The World's Worst Web Browser HTTP Status Codes It's the Gisle and Graham Show! The Library for WWW Access in Perl The LWPwwwb Program Doing More with LWPwwwb Building a Custom Web Server The libnet Library Email Enabling simplehttpd Other Networking Add-on Modules Where to From Here? Print Resources Web Resources 5. Management Simple Management with ICMP Doing the Ping Thing Doing the Net: Ping Thing Tracing Routes Not So Simple Management with SNMP The SNMP Management Framework Managed Data The SNMP Protocol The Net: SNMP Module Working with Net: SNMP What's Up? Setting MIB-II Data IP Router Mapping Where to From Here? Print Resources Web Resources 6. Mobile Agents What is a Mobile Agent? Mobile-Agent Examples Mobile-Agent Advantages/Disavantages Perl Agents The Agent.pm Module Ooooh, Objects! The Default Mobile Agent A Launching Mobile-Agent Environment A One-Shot Location Relocating to Multiple Locations The Mobile-Agent multiwho The Mobile-Agent ipdetermine The Cloning Mobile-Agent ipdetermine Other Perl Agent Examples Where to From Here? Print Resources Web Resources Appendices Index